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Nolan M. Kennedy has practiced law on the Monterey Peninsula since 1973, primarily in the areas of business transactions, business and non-profit organizations, real estate and health care law. He has written and lectured extensively in legal areas and is co-author of the chapter on Options in Real Estate Transactions, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar. Mr. Kennedy is active in the local community. He is on the Board of Directors of the Monterey County Property Owners Association, serving two terms as president. He served 11 years on the board for the Carmel Bach Festival, and is a past board member of the Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce and Volunteers in Action among other community organizations. He is on the Board of Directors of the Monterey County United Way, and is Chair of the Board for 2004-2005. Currently, he is a member of the State Bar of California and the Monterey County Bar Association, for which he served on the Executive Committee, and the American Health Lawyers Association. Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Baylor University in Texas and the University of California Hastings College of Law. While in law school, Mr. Kennedy received the Order of the Coif, and was a member and managing editor of the Hastings Law Journal.
 


Nolan M. Kennedy

Daniel F. Archer has practiced law on the Monterey Peninsula since 1988. Mr. Archer's primary areas of practice cover commercial transactions, including real estate acquisitions, dispositions, development and leasing, construction, commercial lending and joint ventures. Mr. Archer is a graduate of California State University at Sacramento (B.S. 1985) and Santa Clara University School of Law (J.D. 1988). While in law school, Mr. Archer was an editor of the Santa Clara University Law Review. In 1987-1988, Mr. Archer clerked for The Honorable Nat Agliano, Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Sixth District. Mr. Archer is a member and former board member of the Rotary Club of Monterey, was a founding board member of the Monterey Peninsula chapter of the American Heart Association, and is a member of the State Bar of California, the Monterey County Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
 


Daniel F. Archer

Jon R. Giffen has practiced in Monterey County since 1996 after moving from San Francisco, where he specialized in defense litigation with the firm of Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley. Mr. Giffen specializes in trial practice in the fields of casualty, employment, automobile, products liability, medical malpractice, business and real estate litigation. Mr. Giffen has gained extensive trial experience in his thirteen years of practice and currently serves on the court appointed arbitration panels in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. Mr. Giffen is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and Santa Clara University Law School. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Monterey and Santa Clara Bar Associations, the Northern California Association of Defense Counsel, the Defense Research Institute and the Rotary Club of Salinas.


Jon R. Giffen

Stan L. Linker has a wealth of experience as a trial lawyer, having tried over 150 cases throughout California's Central Coast. Mr. Linker has litigated cases in both state and federal court (including mass tort, multi-district litigation). Mr. Linker's practice emphasizes insurance defense, design professional law, construction defects, products liability, public entity and business law. Mr. Linker is a current board member of the Northern California Association of Defense Counsel (ADC), and a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California and the Monterey County Bar Association (Treasurer, 1983; Executive Committee, 1980). He is a former member of the Monterey County Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1985-1986), California Trial Lawyers Association (board member, Board of Directors, 1985-1986), Salinas United Way (Board of Directors) and Salinas Host Lions Club (officer and board member). Mr. Linker is a graduate of California State University, Fresno and University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Linker was a member of the Moot Court Honors Board.
 


Stan L. Linker

David W. Balch is a graduate of Columbia University and the Georgetown University Law Center (magna cum laude). While in law school, Mr. Balch received the Order of the Coif, and he was a member and articles editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. In 1995-96, Mr. Balch clerked for Judge Frank Magill of the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Mr. Balch has significant experience with large, complex commercial litigation, having spent six years in big firm practice in New York City, first with Cravath, Swaine and Moore, and more recently with O'Sullivan LLP. A new resident of the Monterey-Salinas area, Mr. Balch is currently a member of the State Bar of California, the State Bar of New York and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern districts of New York.” Mr. Balch is practicing in the area of litigation.


David W. Balch

Cathleen M. Giovannini is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Notre Dame Law School (cum laude). While in law school, Ms. Giovannini was a White Scholar and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Law Ethics and Public Policy. Following law school, Ms. Giovannini served as staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit from 1992 to 1995. In 1995-96, Ms. Giovannini clerked for Judge Myron H. Bright of the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Ms. Giovannini is a member of the State Bar of California (2006), the State Bar of Missouri (1992) and the State Bar of New York (2000), where she practiced previously as a legal services attorney and in private practice. She is also a member of the Monterey County Bar Association (2007). A new resident of the Monterey-Salinas area, Ms. Giovannini principally practices in the area of litigation.

Cathie Giovannini
Cathie Giovannini

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